The Broadband Language Training System, or BLTS, is a new way for the Defense Language Institute to deliver culturally-based foreign-language training to service members — no matter where they are in the world.

Col. Danial “Dino” Pick, commandant of DLI, said that even though his organization started this particular program about five years ago, BLTS is growing and expanding quickly.

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